While working outside in the yard tonight...
Eamon: <slightly whiny> "When can we go inside so I can have some ice cream?"
Me: "In a little bit. I want to pull some more weeds. Why don't you make yourself useful?"
Eamon: *sigh* "Ok, I'm going to use the shovel to make this hole Max & Ziggy dug even bigger."
Me: "Um, what?! No! How about you use the shovel to fill in the hole!?"
Eamon: *sigh* "Ok." <light bulb suddenly goes on> "Mommy! I just thought of something! There could be dinosaurs buried in our back yard! Scientists didn't check to see if there were dinosaurs buried here before the house was built, right?"
Me: "Well, no..."
Eamon: "So there could be dinosaurs under the back yard and we'd be the first people to find them and then we'd be famous! I'm going to start digging for them!"
Me: "Uh, ok..." <light bulb suddenly goes on> "You know, I think the best place to look for dinosaur bones is over here in this spot <where I'm going to plant a tree soon> so why don't you dig here?"
Eamon: "OK!!"
Five minutes later...
Eamon: <slightly whiny> "When can we go inside so I can have some ice cream?"
Me: "As soon as you find a dinosaur bone, we'll go in."
Eamon: <dejectedly> "Ok..."
Several minutes later...
Eamon: "Mommy, look what I found!" <pulling a large bone out of the hole> "I'm ready for my ice cream!"
Me: "Did you really find that in the hole!? It doesn't count because its one of the dogs' bones but still..."
Eamon: <grins mischievously>
Me: "Hey! You planted that there. But that was a pretty good one. Ok, I guess you did earn some ice cream with that one."
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